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  • Easter Dinner

    Awesome Pork Loin Twice Baked Potatoes Steamed Broccoli with Orange Sauce and Sesame SeedsRollsFried Apples and Onions Deviled Eggs plain applesaucesliced strawberries and shortcakes with Cool Whip The broccoli recipe you’ll have to beg my niece for. I know we steamed the broccoli but she brought the orange sauce already mixed up and the sesame…

  • Fried Apples and Onions

    Fried Apples and Onions

    I used to have some celebrity cookbook that I can’t quite recall. It was by a southerner, a movie star maybe, female I think. The recipes were mostly stuff I would not eat but was fun to read about: fried this and that, lots of salt pork and butter and bacon grease–great tasting stuff I’m…

  • Twice Baked Potatoes

    Twice Baked Potatoes

    These are a bit more work but you can do it all ahead of time. That makes for a good dinner party recipe in my book! These also freeze well. After you’ve filled the shells and topped with cheese, flash freeze them, then bag so you can just pull out however many you need for…

  • Awesome Pork Loin

    Awesome Pork Loin

    The Pork Loin (served 7 plus lots of leftovers) Pork loins were on sale this week. I do not know my meat cuts well at all so I really enjoy this book my sister gave me, The Complete Meat Cookbook. There are great explanations at the beginning of each chapter about the different cuts and…

  • Those Nights You Can’t Cook Much

    We all have them: those nights when getting dinner on the table is difficult or you’d just rather be doing something different! A friend said “That’s why you should keep some frozen Lean Cuisine’s in the freezer.” Well, no. That’s not my answer. I do keep some dinner “starters” in the freezer however. This might…